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Facts About St. Charles
- Fr. Dollard, our first Pastor, was considered an “Empty-lot Father” searching for land and people to start a
2nd Catholic parish in Livermore.
- Parish was established in 1964.
- The first parish Mass was held on August 16, 1964 at Granada High School. The parish used the Vine
Theater for Sunday Masses starting on August 22, 1965 through end of summer 1968. Masses and baptisms were also held
in parishioners’ homes in those early years.
- Mass was held for the first time in the church on the Lomitas site on September 15, 1968.
- Church building was intended to be used as a gym for a future school planned to be built on the Lomitas property.
- Our multi-purpose facility, the Keeley Center, was completed in 2002 replacing a much smaller building used for several years.
Center was named after the late Fr. James Keeley, beloved and popular pastor from 1976-1985.
- Our first liturgies in our renovated church were celebrated on Holy Thursday, April 8, 2004.
- In July 1980, St. Charles was approved for the first female Pastoral Associate in the Oakland Diocese, Sr. Marie Weidner, O.P.
- Succession of Pastors: Frs. John Dollard, 1964-76; James Keeley, 1976-85; Vincent J. Scott, 1985-1990;
Steven Swenson, 1990-96; Richard McCafferty, S.J., administrator, 1996-2003,
Robert Mendonça, parochial administrator, 2003 to present.
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